superstar

English

Etymology

super- +‎ star

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːpə(ɹ)ˌstɑː(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

superstar (plural superstars)

1. Someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity.
2. (rare, astronomy) A giant star.
   • 1964, Life: Volume 56, No. 4‎^[1], →ISBN, page 11:

     The greater an object's mass, the greater its gravitational force. If a star could attain a certain mass --- say a million to 100 million times the mass of our own sun --- then its gravity would become 100 times as powerful as the forces generated by the strongest known nuclear reactions. Such a super superstar, in a normal course of its evolution, would contract..

   • 1975, Harold W. G. Allen, The Edge of the Universe: What is Our Destiny? Is There Life After Death? What Incredible Secret Lies in the Depths of Space?‎^[2], Allen Book Pub., page 36:

     Toward the centre of the cluster, where they were more strongly congested, the whole region glowed as though as it were a monstrous superstar.

   • 1979, Michael Zeilik, Astronomy: The Evolving Universe‎^[3], Harper and Row, →ISBN, page 379:

     Perhaps a supermassive cluster can coalesce to form a superstar -- a star with a mass of 1 million to 100 million solar masses.

Related terms

• megastar

Translations

very famous person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巨星 (zh) (jùxīng), 超級明星, 超级明星 (chāojí míngxīng)

• Dutch: superster (nl) f or m
• Finnish: supertähti
• French: superstar (fr) f
• German: Superstar (de) m
• Hebrew: סופרסטאר‎ m (súperstar)
• Hindi: सुपरस्टार m (suparsṭār), सुपरसितारा m (suparsitārā)
• Hungarian: szupersztár
• Italian: superstar f

• Japanese: スーパースター (sūpāsutā)
• Korean: 슈퍼스타 (syupeoseuta)
• Polish: wielka gwiazda f, supergwiazda f
• Portuguese: superestrela (pt) m or f
• Russian: суперзвезда́ (ru) f (superzvezdá)
• Spanish: superestrella f
• Swedish: superstjärna (sv)
• Vietnamese: siêu sao
• Welsh: archseren f

References

• “superstar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• pasturers, pretarsus, super-rats, superrats

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French

Noun

superstar f (plural superstars)

1. superstar (person)

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English superstar, equivalent to super- +‎ star.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.perˈstar/, /su.peˈstar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: su‧per‧stàr

Noun

superstar f (invariable)

1. superstar, megastar

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Romanian

Etymology

From English superstar.

Noun

superstar n (plural superstaruri)

1. superstar

Declension

Declension of superstar

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) superstar	superstarul	(niște) superstaruri	superstarurile
genitive/dative	(unui) superstar	superstarului	(unor) superstaruri	superstarurilor
vocative	superstarule		superstarurilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English superstar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsupeɾesˈtaɾ/, [ˌsu.pe.ɾesˈt̪aɾ]

Noun

superstar m or f

1. superstar

   Synonym: superestrella

   • 2007, El sueño de Morfeo, Mi columna de opinión

     No soy una superstar aunque haya fotos en revistas y fans

     I'm not a superstar even if there are photos in magazines and fans

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.